Matthew Ponsford is a London-based writer and researcher. Even in early summer, when Sherwood Forest is thick with lime-colored new leaves, you start to see it from a few hundred paces away. Its trunk is 36 feet around and its … Read more
Civilization’s toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost. High levels of performance often require complex, difficult-to-produce technology operating close to the limits of what’s possible. Any contractor could … Read more
In the previous posts, we’ve explored the SQLite file format and built a simple SQL parser. It’s time to put these pieces together and implement a query evaluator! In this post, we’ll lay the groundwork for evaluating SQL queries and … Read more
As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big deal! Thank you again to Google for this huge contribution to the Pebble community. Now we’re hard at work on hardware and … Read more
My approach to running a link blog from Simon Willison I decided to follow simon’s approach to creating a link blog, where I can share interesting links I find on the internet along with my own comments and thoughts about … Read more
written on Friday, January 24, 2025 Another day, another rant about dependencies. from me. This time I will ask you that we start and support a vibe shift when it comes to dependencies. You’re probably familiar with the concept of … Read more
ZX80 hardware page Please note that you are NOT allowed to reproduce any of this page elsewhere on the Web without my permission.MOST IMAGES ON THIS PAGE ARE MY OWN WORK I respectfully recognise the copyright of the original producer … Read more
Updated on: January 19, 2025 TL;DR In this tutorial, we’re going to build a tiny, standalone, online Certificate Authority (CA) that will mint TLS certificates and is secured with a YubiKey. It will be an internal ACME server on our … Read more
Since the beginning, Railway’s compute has been built on top of Google Cloud Platform. The platform supported Railway’s initial journey, but it has caused a multitude of problems that have posed an existential risk to our business. More importantly, building … Read more
01. Complex systems are built from simple ideas Complex software like databases, compilers, and browsers are treated like black boxes. You use them every day as a user, but you probably don’t understand them as a programmer, even though they … Read more